Apparatus for treating tobacco



June 22 1926.

w. F. NAGEL APPARATUS FOR TREATING TOBACCO Filed April 22, 1925 Inventor Willi m E Nags! Atty Patented June 22, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

WILLIAI II. NAGEL, OI ENBLEY, ALABAIA.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING- TOBACCO.

Application fled April 2:, 1925. Serial m. 25,125.

al view of my apparatus, in a convenient desk or table arrangement.

In Fig. 1 1 is a vessel, preferably cylindrical as hown, with art of its side wall in section a 2. From the upper part of vessel 1 is suspended or held a perforate or fenestrated container 3, 3, preferably a wire cloth basket with relatively open mesh. The tobacco is held in this basket. 4 is a cover with handle or knob 5 and a plurality of ventilating openings as 6, 6, are provided to permit escape of vapors, etc. To insure necessary warmth and adequate saturation of air I provide a tank or container as at 7, the side wall being shown as cylindrical and the inner wall 8 (both shown in section) being substantially part ofa cone. Water is held as at 9. The inner surface of wall 8 forms a substantially conical reflector for an electric lamp 10, the flexible leads of which are indicated at 11, and suitable gaps, 12, 12, 12, etc., in the base ermit entry of air through openings 13. ere the lamp 10 not only supplies light, which can reach the tobacco through the meshes of basket 3,

but also heats the interior so that water vaporizes from the supply at 9 and maintains the requisite degree of saturation. By convection, as is obvious, the air is constantly 'renewed, ingress being from below and egress through the orifices in the top. The apparatus is very simple and well adapted for use by the smoker himself as it has only 4 to be connected to a light socket b suitable cord conductors, when, with a. equate supply of water in the reservoir, it is ready to operate.

The efiect of the sustained heat, together 5 with the exposure to intense light, causes the more volatile contents of the tobacco to come oif into the water-saturated or moist air and thus to be carried off through the outlets at top. It is obvious that the process may be continued as long as desirable.

If the basket 3 is deep enough the same apparatus may be used to treat cigars, the time required, however, beingrela-ted to the degree of access of the warm atmosphere to the interior of the cigar.

Having described my invention, what I claim is In apparatus of the class described, a

chamber, a fenestrated container in the u per part of said chamber arranged to ho d tobacco, an incandescent lamp beneath said container, and a second container arranged to hold liquid and having one of its walls arranged as a reflector for said lamp, substantially as shown.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set m hand at Montgomery, Alabama, this Marc 1 19th. 1925.

WILLIAM F. NAGEL. 

